An Island in the Sun
About women seeking love on Gran Canaria, the sunny island where frozen Norwegians raise their temperatures.
About the film
Haugsgjerd travels to Gran Canaria to make a film about love. She wants to study the tourists who have decided to stay, after falling in love with the locals or other tourists. After a while she begins interrupting her interview subjects, and teasing them. Perhaps she's searching for love herself? An enchanting vagabond captures her attention, she becomes open to the idea of letting him in.
About the filmmaker
Anne Haugsgjerd (b. 1944) was originally trained as a graphic artist at the Norwegian School of Crafts and Design, but has been making films since the 1980s. She works in the short film format and in the intersection between fiction and documentary. She herself has described her often humorous and reflective, biographical and self-revealing films as "bastards". Her most famous film Life at Frogner (1986) received both the Amanda nomination and the audience award at the Short Film Festival in Grimstad. Later, she has been presented several times at the renowned Oberhausen short film festival where also More Woman, More Cry premiered.